Changsha, China
Fenglin Hotel
November 19-20
2019
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    ISPRS and GEO workshop on
    Geospatially-enabled SDGs Monitoring for the 2030 Agenda
    19-20 November, 2019
    Changsha, China
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BACKGROUND

In September 2015, the United Nations adopted “Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” as a new ambitious global development plan to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and combat climate change. Comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with 169 associated targets, the agenda recognizes the complex and diverse challenges that the world of today faces. It has been proposed by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) that it is impossible to measure and monitor the SDGs without the use of accurate, reliable and up-to-date geospatial data. Therefore, establishing a dynamic SDGs monitoring mechanism based on geospatial data is a critical issue for international communities.

WHAT IS OUR GOAL?

The ISPRS and GEO workshop aims to discuss the opportunities and challenges of geospatial-enabled SDGs monitoring (GI4SDGs), to present the recent R&D progress on relevant topics (including global mapping and collaborative crowd-sourced cloud mapping), and to explore future collaborations.

We cordially invite all scientists, researchers, practitioners and decision makers to join the workshop and share their experience by presenting papers and participating in the discussions.